Friday, July 29, 2016

Dale's Tales for August 2016

Greetings everyone, welcome to "Dale's Tales"
for August, 2016.

NEWS FROM THE DAYTON HAMVENTION®: The Dayton Amateur
Radio Association

(DARA) regrets to inform our many vendors, visitors and
stakeholders that, unfortunately, HARA has announced the closing of their
facility. We have begun execution of our contingency plan to move
Hamvention® 2017 to a new home.

DARA and Hamvention® have enjoyed many successful years
working together with HARA Arena and we wish the Wampler family the best.

DARA and Hamvention® have been working on a contingency
plan in the event HARA would become unavailable. We have spent many hours over
the last few years evaluating possible locations and have found one in the area
we believe will be a great new home! Due to logistics and timing issues, we
will make a formal announcement introducing our new partner.

This information will be coming soon. We all believe this
new venue will be a spectacular place to hold our beloved event. Please rest
assured we will have the event on the same weekend and, since it will be in the
region, the current accommodations and outside events already planned for
Hamvention® 2017 should not be affected.

We look forward to your continued support as we move to a
new future with The Dayton Hamvention®.

Signed:

Ron Cramer

General Chairman

Dayton Hamvention 2017

The Mad River Radio Club hosts another one: the upcoming
Ohio QSO Party. It will be held August 27, 2016. Full details, rules, links and forms are at http://www.ohqp.org/ For those among us who are
not familiar with the MRRC, it is a regional club of contest enthusiasts who
really enjoy putting counties (and people!) on the air. You can check the MRRC web page at http://www.madriverradioclub.org/.

Welcome to the new hams that have joined ARRL
recently. The number of members in the Great Lakes Division has continued to grow
somewhat this year while we had expected a slight downturn. Division membership stats stand at 12,796, making us one of the larger of the
15 Divisions in the ARRL. We do
encourage members to occasionally review and update their Personal Web pages by
logging into ARRL.org and looking at their personal profile.
There is also the opportunity to view and select your various e-mail subscriptions ARRL offers under
"Edit your Profile". Check it
out!

TOM'S COMMENTS:
Comments from our Vice Director Tom Delany W8WTD Is there a busy season
for ham radio? Maybe, but we also seem
to find a lot to do any time of the year.
If anything tips the balance toward summer being the busiest, it’s
probably the public service events.

Nice to see so many people taking part in helping with
communications for bike rides, runs, parades, etc. What we do is always appreciated. It’s a good time for newer hams to take part, and learn
what goes on with nets and remote operation.
Good training for emergency work.

There are lots of hamfests coming up in the next couple
of months.

I’ll be at Columbus, Lawrenceburg, KY, Cincinnati
(OHKYIN), as well as Greater Louisville and Findlay. I’m looking forward to
seeing everyone and talking about what is going on in your part of ham radio

I’m always encouraged to see youth in ham radio. There are lots of good programs throughout
the Division, and lots of plans to help get and keep youth involved. Speaking of involvement, it was nice to meet
Chris, KD8YVJ, this year’s winner of the Hiram Percy Maxim award. I wish his
enthusiasm for ham radio would rub off on everyone!

73, Tom W8WTD Vice Director, Great Lakes Division

AMATEUR RADIO PARITY ACT:
Congress is currently in recess, due back in early September. When this happens, we will be getting
information to you so you may contact your elected representatives encouraging
their support of the Amateur Radio Parity Act. You can find the latest
information at http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-parity-act.

ARRL SANCTIONED HAMFESTS:
Here is the current Great Lakes Division ARRL Sanctioned Hamfest
Schedule covering the next few weeks.
These swaps have received their sanctioning approval from ARRL HQ at the
time of this publication. We have
approximately 65 hamfests each year in the Great Lakes Division. I do encourage each Hamfest Chair to register
early for ARRL Sanctioning. It is never
too early to register your hamfest with Headquarters. Be sure to invite your ARRL Officials as soon
as your date is set. Help avoid date
conflicts, do it early!